Bf. Kieback et al., SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF NANOCRYSTALLINE COMPOUNDS PREPARED BY HIGH-ENERGY MILLING, Journal de physique. IV, 3(C7), 1993, pp. 1425-1428
Carbides, borides and nitrides of high melting transition metals were
synthesized by high energy ball milling of elemental powder mixtures.
The obtained hard material phases show a nanocrystalline structure wit
h a saturation value of the crystal sizes between 7-8 nm. The kinetics
of the reaction were investigated, and the nanocrystalline powders we
re densified by HIP.